Go
 

  Get this audio book:

( The Great Courses )        # of Discs: 12

( The Great Courses )        # of Discs: 4




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: Joseph Koterski
This Narrator: Joseph Koterski
This Publisher: The Great Courses

Natural Law and Human Nature by Joseph Koterski

Natural Law and Human Nature

by Joseph Koterski


Title Details

Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
12 Hrs.

Description

What do we mean by inalienable human rights? Is legislation the basis for those rights?

These lectures explore the concept of human nature and how it is the basis for natural law and natural rights philosophy.

Calling upon such diverse resources as the American Declaration of Independence, the Greek tragedy Antigone, Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, and the stirring letter of Martin Luther King from Birmingham Jail, this course considers the argument that a higher law can be invoked to challenge written legislation.

It looks at the history of natural law as the basis for the claim that acts such as slavery, torture, and blackmail are wrong because they violate the rights to which human beings, by their very nature, are entitled.


People Who Liked Natural Law and Human Nature Also Liked These Titles:
  A Good Month for Murder
by Del Quentin Wilber

  The Ecology of Law
by Fritjof Capra